The Q4 Landing Strip: Landing the Plane and Clearing DecemberEvery autumn, the professional world defaults to the year-end sprint: digging deep, clearing the backlog, and pushing to midnight on December 31st in a cloud of dust. Nowhere is this pressure more visceral than in billable-hour or quota-driven environments, where you suddenly realize you need to average 200 hours a month…
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Key takeaways

  • The Council of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted last month to repeal ABA Standard 206, the law school accreditation standard requiring commitments to diversity and inclusion.
  • The standard has been suspended since February 2025 and has not been enforced since 2024.
  • The Council said

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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. For all the cultural excitement surrounding generative text and conversational chatbots, modern language models remain fundamentally tethered to human prose. They predict the next token based on things humans have already written down. But nature does not write memos. The atmospheric circulation driving supercells, the delicate migration pathways of endangered ecosystems,…
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The Justice Department has agreed to pause the criminal case against former CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry, a notable development in a closely watched foreign-influence prosecution that had raised difficult questions about lobbying, policy advocacy, and national security relationships. Terry had been accused of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for South Korea, but prosecutors are now putting the case…
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Our Professionalism Spotlight series highlights Illinois legal professionals who demonstrate the ideals of professionalism in their careers.
In this Professionalism Spotlight, we spoke to Misty Gamino, co-founder of CG Law LLC, where she practices family law.
She was named the 2026 HLAI Latina Lawyer of the Year.
Misty earned her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Why …
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A federal judge in Washington has ordered the Trump administration to stop tree-cutting and related work at East Potomac Golf Course through October 26, extending an earlier temporary pause and turning a local land-use fight into a closely watched federal court dispute.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia…
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Florida has carried out the execution of James Robertson, a death-row prisoner whose case drew attention for an unusual and legally significant reason: Robertson had pleaded guilty to killing his cellmate and reportedly said he committed the murder in hopes of being transferred to death row. He also waived further appeals, placing the case in the narrower category of so-called…
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Legal professionals will now be able to automatically record the time they spend working in the legal AI platform Legora, as the result of a new partnership with the AI timekeeping platform Laurel.With this partnership, the companies announced today, Laurel will turn every task a lawyer completes in Legora into a time entry, with the client, the matter, and…
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A former mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer at Greenberg Traurig today launched useABI, a legal AI platform for M&A lawyers that is designed to function not as just another AI assistant but as something closer to a working member of a deal team.“With useABI, an M&A lawyer gets the purchase agreement markup, issues list, diligence report and diligence summary for a new…
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Last year, this blog broke the news that the payroll and human resources company PayChex had acquired the employment law compliance and documentation company SixFifty, which had previously been owned by the Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a technology subsidiary, as well as by SixFifty’s CEO Kimball Dean Parker, the Utah lawyer who…
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For years, whether recording episodes in the studio, drafting analyses on emerging tech, or speaking to audiences across the globe, I have chased the inflection points where innovation collides with human reality. Yet sitting here, microphone around my head, looking at my PowerPoint seeing the names of executives, engineers, and everyday thinkers, the air felt charged with something rarer: an…
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Legal AI platform Jylo has launched Jylo 3.0, introducing a major overhaul that moves the company beyond AI-assisted document analysis and towards more autonomous, agent-driven legal workflows. The latest release, […]
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A new post-grant review, PGR2027-00004, was filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on October 10, 2026, naming Shenzhen Torras Technology Co., Ltd. in the proceeding. For patent litigators, portfolio managers, and in-house IP counsel, this is the kind of early-stage PTAB matter worth watching closely—particularly because post-grant review can put a broad range of patentability issues…
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